Re: mailing output

From: Bill Verzal (BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 11:06:30 EDT


Odd - the command 'mail -s"subject line" root < somefile' works fine for
me.

BV
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Greetings,

I am having a bit of trouble with a script that should email root the
output of a command but also have a subject line.

Currently we just run the command from cron and it gets sent to root's
email but with a subject line. So, I thought i would make a script that
added the subject.

I was hoping for something as easy as:

 mail -s"subject line" root | ls -la

 even when I output the command to a file and then try to redirect I get
failures.

 mail -s"subject line" root < somefile

 mail complains of unknow users 'subject' and 'line'.

 Is there a simple way?



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